Dr. Samira was happy to finally be contributing to the system and didn’t mind that her work was voluntary. She started in mid term 1971 and has grown the women’s education pro- gramme over the years into what it has become today: publicly recognised and producing 57 per cent of the university graduates in the Kingdom. “I had been volunteering but, when he left, I found a letter from Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Ali stating that he had hired me from the start and had established me as a teacher from the outset.” Now with tenure, Dr. Islam could start reforming. “I was appointed the academic advisor to the girls’ education and the science sections and I asked them to give me the opportunity to make university education, for girls, formal. I did a survey in 1973 to see if people wanted it and I got approval that the girls would start as normal students through the effort